Illinois announced its latest athletic facility upgrade Monday, a $30 million renovation of the Ubben Complex basketball practice facility.

The project will more than double the space, adding 45,000 square feet to the two-story brick building that was built in 1998. The improvements include two new half-courts for the men’s and women’s teams, modern sports medicine services, an upgraded two-story weight room and new offices, locker rooms and recruiting spaces.

“We’re confident in the fans we have and the people we have to support a project like this as well as other ones,” athletic director Josh Whitman said of raising funds. “It’s something we’ve identified as a need since I walked in the door.”

The Ubben Complex was considered a new standard for practice facilities when it was built for $5.5 million two decades ago. But since then the Illini have been surpassed as programs have dedicated large funds for gleaming facilities.

The Ubben upgrades are among many facility projects Whitman has announced since his hiring in February 2016.

A 107,650-square-foot, $79.2 million football performance center is expected to open before the 2019 season. The athletic department is exploring adding hockey as a Division I sport, potentially with a new downtown arena. And the department’s website lists future projects for Huff Hall, an Olympic sports training space, renovations to baseball and softball facilities, Memorial Stadium renovations, soccer facilities development and renovation plans for track and field.

The money to improve Ubben, Whitman said, will be raised through “The Champions Campaign” under the athletic department’s $300 million fundraising goal that is part of “With Illinois,” a $2.25 billion university-wide campaign.

The Ubben renovation is expected to take three years, Whitman said at a news conference in Champaign. The project awaits board of trustees approval.

The facility will be “tremendously helpful” in recruiting and for developing current athletes, men’s basketball coach Brad Underwood said at the news conference.

“Providing an atmosphere where our student-athletes — incoming and future — have an environment where we’re self-contained (is beneficial),” Underwood said. “Things have changed a great deal in 20 years. It’s not as much advantage-disadvantage (in recruiting) as it is making us at the elite level. This facility and this venture is something that puts us at the very top with anybody in America.”

Other local programs also are working on basketball facilities. Loyola recently broke ground on an $18.5 million athletic practice facility that would keep the basketball program from having to share space with three other teams at Gentile Arena. And Northwestern will be opening the $20 million-plus Trienens Performance Center to go with the renovated Welsh-Ryan Arena.